Machine for pressing cloth



P. MILLER. y Maohingfor Pressing Cloth.

No. 228,375. I Patented .lune 1,1880.

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UNITE STATES PATENT V Truce,

PHILIP MILLER, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR PRESSING CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,375, dated June 1, 1880.

Application tiled J anuary 17, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP MILLER, of Norwich, New London county, Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Pressing Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of machines for pressing cloth which employ a steamheated bed, over which a solid or hollow steamheated roller 'forces the woolen tiannel, or other cloths; and it consists in theeombination,\vith a steam-heated box, of a glass surface and an interposed yielding cushion, as hereinafter claimed. p

In the accompanying drawings, like letters of reference indicate like parts.

Figure l is a perspective View of enough of a pressin g-maehine to fully illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of Fig. 1 at any point along the length of the roller.

A is a hollow box, and D a slotted opening, to which a steam-pipeis secured. E is a glass bed, placed directly over the steam-heated box, and f is a thin sheet of lead underneath the glass. This, being a yieldingmaterial, saves the glass from breaking whenever too great or unequal pressure is made.

Rubber or any yielding material, or felt or springs may be used in place. of lead, it only being necessary that the bed should slightly yield, rather than break.

B is the roller, which may be of any Wellknown sort, and either solid, as shown by my illustration, or hollow, and heated by steam. This, of course, is immaterial to my invention.

The glass bed, which is hollowed out to register with the convex surface of the roller, is separate from the box, and secured thereto by strips C.

I have found in the extensive use of presses 0f the sort of which mine is an improvement that now and then the metal (usually brass) rusts and soils a piece of very light-colored and expensive cloth, and now and then the brass becomes indented, and this presses the cloth irregularly'.

The upper part of the bed being of glass, is firm, keeps the line of impression even, and will stand long wear. From the nature of the material it is easily kept clean.

I am, of course, well aware that my apparatus for pressing is generally a well-known one.

What, therefore, I claim as my invention l. In a cloth-pressing machine, the combination, with a hollow steam-heated boX and a glass bed or surface thereon, of a yielding cushion interposed between said box and bed, substantially as described.

2. In a clotlrpressing machine, the combination of a hollow steam-heated box, a glass bed or surface thereon, and an interposed sheet of lead to give said bed a slight yielding oa pacity, all arranged as and for the purposes set forth. v

PHILIP MILLER. Witnesses:

W. S. CoNGDoN, HENRY H. BURNHAM. 

